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The Jewel of Seven Stars

CHAPTER XVIII
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In both are duplications of the same symbolisation, but so arranged that the parts of each one of them are integral portions of some other writing running crosswise.

It is only when we get a coup d'oeil from either the head or the foot that you recognise that there are symbolisations.

See! they are in triplicate at the corners and the centre of both top and bottom.

In every case there is a sun cut in half by the line of the sarcophagus, as by the horizon.

Close behind each of these and faced away from it, as though in some way dependent on it, is the vase which in hieroglyphic writing symbolises the heart--'Ab' the Egyptians called it.


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